Puzzle Description:

Latex glove. Due to ubiquitous use of latex gloves in health care settings, at one times allergy and contact dermatitis among health care workers was increasing dramatically. Every exposure to a potential allergen increases the chance of developing a sensitivity. Now non-allergenic purple nitrile gloves are often used instead, and occupational latex allergies are no longer increasing.

#1: Robyn Broyles (ginkgo100) on Sep 6, 2009 [HINT]

You can use edge logic on all four sides, but you will only need it on the left and bottom.

This puzzle was one of the worst yet to make solvable. I had to put it away for a few days and come back to work on it later.

I loved it. I can personally relate to having to use the purple nitrile gloves. Great fun to solve. I actually DID use edge logic on all 4 sides. It was fun. This one (as opposed to your most previous puzzle) was a great example of edge logic.

Cool puzzle. I got stumped and even edge logic would not help. When I tried some very deep edge logic and got a red dot, I realized I had made a mistake along the way and started over. Then simple edge logic got me through just fine. Fun!

And thanks for # 14 ...

"# 14..." ???

Oh, Robyn's 14th entry. Gotcha. I didn't know what that meant, because I saw these comments before the ones in which you mentioned her #13.

Adam, I can relate too! I do get bouts of atopic dermatitis on my hands, so I bought latex gloves for doing the dishes. Then my allergist told me I'm allergic to latex. D'oh! There's one brand of disposable nitrile gloves at my usual grocery store. I can't stand the vinyl ones. Do you use nitrile gloves exclusively at work, or do you use both?

Well, we stock all kinds of gloves. I just hate the powdered kinds, no matter what material. I had 2 patients in a row who were latex-allergic, and so I started using the purple nitrile gloves, and they felt better. I started using them exclusively since.

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

Good edge logic puzzle.

Tricky to get started but then moved along nicely. Image is well done.

fun solve

I agree - fun solve. I started with edge logic on all three 9s - the wrong two first, of course.

All that's needed is edge logic on the 9 in c1. The rest is line logic.


I use nitrile gloves at work sometimes, not due to allergies, but due to the fact that nitrile plastic holds up to lacquer thinner longer than other types of plastic. (Our gloves were blue - like the ones on the secret gov't guys from Firefly.)
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Dunechaser/Firefly/12_two_by_two_hands_of_blue.jpg

When I brought my son to the dentist, the hygienists wore blue gloves, so of course I murmured to him, "two by two, hands of blue."

Haha, kid torture!

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